Geneva, Switzerland -- Over the weekend, a living standards
conference brought together some of the greatest minds of our time.
Among the attendees were prominent economists, psychologists, and
hipsters.

While it may seem like these groups have nothing in common, and may
even despise one another, they were able to work together congenially
for two and a half days. The conference was supposed to be a four day
event, but: the hipsters stopped participating because they realized
they were actually being constructive; the psychologists diagnosed each
other with generalized anxiety disorder and had to go home; and the
economists said that the whole conference was grossly inefficient and
that from a cost benefit analysis, their time would be better off spent
at home debating debates.

The panel discussions varied widely in subject and scope, yielding ideas for policy changes throughout the developed world.

-We need more billboards along highways. A lot more. And we need more with a political or religious slant.

-We need more hipsters. Period. We cannot get enough of this hipster thing.

-We want our elected officials to spend more money with more abandon. The Rule of Law does not apply to these geniuses.

The list of ideas to improve our lives continues. This reporter, for one, would like to delve deeper into this story.